SEESAW: Supporting Equality Excellence & Satisfaction At Work Norwich Medical School SEESAW: Supporting Equality Excellence & Satisfaction At Work

The University of East Anglia & Equality and Diversity “The UEA is proud of the increasing diversity of its campus and works with staff, students, and organisations around Norfolk and Norwich, regionally and nationally to achieve its aim of being an inclusive place for study and work.” The central E&D office website you can find: Information on the central E&D committee and minutes Central policies, schemes and action plans, information on Aurora leadership training, training, legislations etc.

What is Athena SWAN? Recognising advancement of gender equality: representation, progression and success for all. Launched in 2005 Mainstreamed in 2011, when the Chief Medical Officer announced NIHR would only expect to shortlist Medical Schools for biomedical research centre and unit funding if the school holds a Silver Athena SWAN award. There are currently 143 Athena SWAN members, holding 617 awards between them. In May 2015 the charter was expanded to recognise work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women. In May 2015 the charter was expanded to recognise work undertaken in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and Law, and in professional support roles, and for trans staff an students. Re-apply

The SEESAW Team

MED Staff Survey Survey goes out annually to our Academic, Research, and Administrative colleagues Assists us to understand issues affecting those working in MED, We need to create a higher response rate this year. Please look out for the survey!

MED Mentoring Scheme The MED Mentoring scheme is designed to be: Voluntary Mentee-focussed Time protected and recognised Flexible and responsive Supported Confidential Evaluated How can I sign up? Blackboard>MED Staff information>Mentoring for MED Academic and Research Staff (Contact Me: Laura)

FMH Research Prizes – Team Science Award This initiative draws on recommendations from the recent reports from the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Stern Report on the value of Team Science The award provides an opportunity to formally recognise and celebrate the excellent teamwork with the Faculty Next competition round will be Jan 2018 Working closely with our DoR&I and Research Staff Co-ordinators – UEA central Concordat (link?), feed into this and have a set of School based guidelines – next meeting 29th September 10.00-11.30 BCRE Room 10.

Promoting Athena SWAN/Equality & Diversity work in MED Social Media SEESAW is on Twitter @SEESAWUEA (follow us!) Website Updated but work ongoing https://www.uea.ac.uk/medicine/equality MED Bulletin Continuing to update our SEESAW work via the bulletin, as well as forwarding on articles, training and funding opportunities (we encourage you to send on anything interesting for us to share) Bi-monthly newsletter Send through interesting articles or links to websites…let us know what you think about the website etc

MED-i-cake* 2017/18 DATES ALL WELCOME! 9th October 2017 10.00-11.00 JSC Foyer 14th November 2017 10.00-11.00 BCRE Atrium 19th December 2017 (Time TBC Christmas Social) TPSC Foyer 25th January 2018 10.00-11.00 23rd February 2018 10.00-11.00 MED 2.02 26th March 2018 10.00-11.00 30th April 2018 10.00-11.00 29th May 2018 10.00-11.00 27th June 2018 TBC MED-i-cake* ALL WELCOME! *cake included!

Thank you! We always welcome new ideas and comments on any issues related to Athena SWAN, or more generally, your working environment in MED. So please do get in touch and enjoy your time working in MED!